Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Egypt
Egypt: Carrots and turnips — Area harvested was 8,864 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Egypt recorded 8,864 ha for carrots and turnips — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.0% on the previous year and up 38.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — area harvested in Egypt peaked at 9,946 ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 1,260 ha, in 1964.
That places Egypt 28th out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Egypt, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,680 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,680 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,680 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,260 ha | -25.0% |
| 1965 | 1,329 ha | +5.5% |
| 1966 | 1,453 ha | +9.3% |
| 1967 | 1,813 ha | +24.8% |
| 1968 | 2,520 ha | +39.0% |
| 1969 | 2,941 ha | +16.7% |
| 1970 | 2,520 ha | -14.3% |
| 1971 | 2,520 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 2,520 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,361 ha | +33.4% |
| 1974 | 4,201 ha | +25.0% |
| 1975 | 4,791 ha | +14.0% |
| 1976 | 4,714 ha | -1.6% |
| 1977 | 4,433 ha | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 4,833 ha | +9.0% |
| 1979 | 5,741 ha | +18.8% |
| 1980 | 6,006 ha | +4.6% |
| 1981 | 5,934 ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 4,994 ha | -15.8% |
| 1983 | 4,620 ha | -7.5% |
| 1984 | 4,620 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 5,040 ha | +9.1% |
| 1986 | 5,040 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 4,200 ha | -16.7% |
| 1988 | 3,780 ha | -10.0% |
| 1989 | 3,360 ha | -11.1% |
| 1990 | 3,655 ha | +8.8% |
| 1991 | 3,818 ha | +4.5% |
| 1992 | 3,445 ha | -9.8% |
| 1993 | 4,041 ha | +17.3% |
| 1994 | 4,372 ha | +8.2% |
| 1995 | 4,752 ha | +8.7% |
| 1996 | 4,243 ha | -10.7% |
| 1997 | 5,136 ha | +21.0% |
| 1998 | 4,940 ha | -3.8% |
| 1999 | 4,490 ha | -9.1% |
| 2000 | 4,587 ha | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 3,947 ha | -14.0% |
| 2002 | 4,074 ha | +3.2% |
| 2003 | 4,293 ha | +5.4% |
| 2004 | 5,550 ha | +29.3% |
| 2005 | 5,550 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 4,600 ha | -17.1% |
| 2007 | 5,990 ha | +30.2% |
| 2008 | 6,217 ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 5,733 ha | -7.8% |
| 2010 | 4,666 ha | -18.6% |
| 2011 | 5,159 ha | +10.6% |
| 2012 | 6,245 ha | +21.1% |
| 2013 | 8,645 ha | +38.4% |
| 2014 | 6,424 ha | -25.7% |
| 2015 | 7,080 ha | +10.2% |
| 2016 | 8,595 ha | +21.4% |
| 2017 | 9,946 ha | +15.7% |
| 2018 | 7,545 ha | -24.1% |
| 2019 | 5,926 ha | -21.5% |
| 2020 | 7,060 ha | +19.1% |
| 2021 | 7,089 ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 9,235 ha | +30.3% |
| 2023 | 9,235 ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 8,864 ha | -4.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,817 ha | 1,260 ha | 2,941 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,963 ha | 2,520 ha | 5,741 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,759 ha | 3,360 ha | 6,006 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,289 ha | 3,445 ha | 5,136 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,054 ha | 3,947 ha | 6,217 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,023 ha | 4,666 ha | 9,946 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,297 ha | 7,060 ha | 9,235 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.32 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1655 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 510.76 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.571 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — area harvested in Egypt?
- Carrots and turnips — area harvested in Egypt was 8,864 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 9,946 ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,260 ha in 1964.
- How does Egypt rank for carrots and turnips — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 28th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — area harvested rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 38.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Carrots and turnips — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.